Category: Freelancers
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How to find your niche as a WordPress freelancer
Since the early days of BuddyPress plugin, David Bisset has focused his freelance developement business around integrating it into his highly customized client projects. He has been able to add value to his client projects by suggesting the addition of a social layer using BuddyPress during the early stage of development. Considering the additional specifications…
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How he turned blogging into his business
Imagine you are working with new client and during your discovery meeting the business owner tells you they want to work with you to fix up their website, especially the area for to be used for blog posts. The business owner shares their commitment to writing weekly content to increase awareness about their new product…
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Improving your onboarding experience with Jennifer Bourn
Attention WordPress agency owners…or hopeful owners! In today’s episode, I sit down with Jennifer Bourn of Bourn Creative and hash out what it takes to go from freelancer mode to agency mode. One of the lessons I’d like you to take away from this chat is sharpening your onboarding process. That subtle, yet oh-so-important phase from the…
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Ozzy Rodriguez: Breaking up the Band
Being a freelancer means you get to run your business your way. More than likely you start by building your personal brand. You take a deep breathe and look at yourself in the mirror. Who am I? What do I offer? How can I deliver value? What is the purpose? When you meet Ozzy, you get…
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Interview with Shawn DeWolfe: Share Cluster plugin
Shawn DeWolfe, co-founder of ThoseDeWolfes Creative, reaches his hand into both the WordPress and Drupal “cookie jars” depending on the nature of the project he’s working on. With WordPress, you get the illusion that you can do something complex real fast. In early July 2014, Shawn released his product Share Cluster plugin into the WordPress…
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Troy Dean of WP Elevation
It has almost been 1 year since I met Troy Dean as a guest on his own WordPress podcast. Shortly after that, I met him at PressNomics, where we became great friends and chased after the same guests for our audience. In between sessions, we plotted our podcasting world domination scheme. We’ve kept in touch talking…
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Try Curtis McHale’s simple change to produce a significant result
Curtis McHale is a returning guest on the Matt Report. In this return appearance on the Matt Report, Curtis shares how and why his rule of no weeknight TV watching, reading business books, finding clients that view hiring a WordPress developer as an investment, and being candid with clients about understanding software bugs has helped…
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Embrace the Happy Chaos with Adam Clark
Adam Clark’s journey to becoming the WordPress-loving freelance developer he is today took a detour. Adam started out in the field of journalism and moved into using and modifying WordPress code. Adam took a detour down the path of using Expression Engine to customize client projects. It wasn’t until after WordPress 3.0 came on the…
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What about Bob Dunn?
Do you have to train your clients on using WordPress after a site launch? In today’s episode I get to sit down with someone I have a ton of respect for, Bob Dunn. Bob runs a site called BobWP.com where he educates newbie WordPress users on using themes, plugins, and general blogging practices. As advanced…